Our Vicious Oaths

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Hey, hey, hey, book lovers.
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All right, welcome back to Plot on the Rock.
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Yes.
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Y'all, we are down.
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One member today, our girl Rikia, celebrating her B Day.
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Yes.
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Happy birthday.
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Happy birthday.
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So we are gonna be talking about today Our Vicious Oaths by N.
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E.
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Davenport, which is a romanticy.
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Um and you know what?
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I'm I'm coming to I'm coming to like romanticies.
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I really am.
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I'm and I I think part of me kind of always did because you know stuff like Game of Thrones and stuff like that.
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Like, you know, I've been partial.
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I mean, technically, no.
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However, I will I will live on the hill that Brienne and Jamie Lannister is a beautiful love story that just should have ended differently.
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That is okay, that is true.
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I don't know.
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I did I liked her in that little the ice ice guy, the the big one.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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What's his name?
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Because he liked her.
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Because he was into her.
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No, they would have been good together too, honestly.
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If she wasn't called like that big woman.
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So, okay, it might not be technically romantic, but there are romantic elements.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Yeah, I'm I'm starting to like this genre.
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Um, one sentence reaction to the book.
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Um you go first.
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Okay.
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My one sentence.
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Obviously, y'all can tell I do not practice before.
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This is this this show is off the cuff for everybody, okay?
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No, for real.
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Um, let me okay.
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One sentence.
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Not what I was expecting.
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I'll say that.
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Not what I was expecting.
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Okay.
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Um what's that?
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What's that?
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The TikTok server's like, be nice.
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Try to find it.
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Try to find it.
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Um I don't I I think I would say the same thing.
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I guess I guess it's not what I expected.
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Yeah, I would say I would say it's not what I expected.
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Yeah.
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I was happy.
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And y'all, this is gonna be the first episode where we have not finished the book before we recorded.
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So we have all gotten just about halfway through because this is a longer book than what we usually read.
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Yes.
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Um, and on top of that, we just got a lot going on right now, you know?
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Yes.
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So we're about halfway through, so we're gonna discuss our feelings up to this point, and then towards the end, kind of go into what we think is gonna happen next because I have theories.
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Um I mean, and okay, so I don't even got a glass, y'all.
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My drink is in a cup cup, so I can't do a clink.
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But how many clinks you have it?
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Me, um, I know my cup is not that good, but I honestly, as of right now, because again, I'm only 40-50% of the way through to the book, but from what I have read so far, I'm gonna give it two clinks.
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Okay.
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Out of five.
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I'm gonna give it two.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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So I'm gonna give it, I'm gonna give it three point five.
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Oh, okay.
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I'm gonna give it a three point five.
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Okay, okay, okay.
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I like it.
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Like the I there are points, especially towards the beginning, where it was hard for me to get into flow into the flow of it because it was so descriptive.
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But honestly, I think that is a that's a normal part of fantasy books.
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Okay.
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Especially the world building kind.
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So even though that was a little difficult for me, I could kind of push past it.
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And once I know where I'm at, they've already described everybody and their their physical attributes and the castles and what they look like.
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Now that I know where I'm at, oh Lord.
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Now that I know where I'm at, I can kind of get into it more, and that's how I felt.
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It took a little bit, and then there were a little couple of things that was like, but again, yeah, I'm good and into it now.
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That's good.
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I was I'm I feel like I'm the most brutally honest out of the group because I'll have to do that.
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I I was on page 16 and I was like, I don't know if I could do this.
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Genuinely, I don't know if I could.
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I wasn't a fan of the writing.
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Really?
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And the first thing I asked in the group chat was, is this her first adult novel?
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Oh my gosh.
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And I Googled it, and it is her first adult novel.
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Why do we why have this whole season we have been either YA or new adult?
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I don't know.
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And I but I think okay, but here's the thing with last week's episode for I Don't Wish You Well, like we knew it was YA, we knew we were jumping in, and we loved it.
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Like we ate that book up, yeah.
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Right?
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Well, no, he that's because he did that.
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Yeah, that's just that was wonderful.
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But take like with I'm a Deucer, for example, another book that's like the first adult book.
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This one's her first adult book.
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There's another romance that I read.
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Uh I think it's the neighbor favorite series.
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That was her first adult book.
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But there I find that there's a trend with that or a theme with that where it's like they're trying to find the adult voice.
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And it's like they're working their way through it in the book because they're so used to writing YA because I think it's two completely different beasts.
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But it reminds me of like a Nickelodeon star or a Disney Channel star who's trying to segue into adult media and then.
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Oh my god, it's not JoJo Seawa.
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No, honestly, I would think I'm gonna do that.
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I was thinking like Miley Cyrus.
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Um, I was thinking Miley Cyrus specifically, but that's what it feels like to me, where it's like, it's almost like, yeah, this is gonna be badass, and this is gonna be hot, so I'm gonna write this down.
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Oh god.
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I like okay, I like the spicy scene.
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I know you didn't like that first one.
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The first one, the first one, the ones after that, yes, like the court, the when they were at this point, girl.
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Yes, the one where I don't know, it's well one, you know I don't like the word cock.
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I don't like wait, did she say that in the moment?
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She missed she uses that.
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Should tell you right there that I was into that shit because I did not notice it at all, and usually that will ick me out to the point that I'll put something.
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I know I'm a I'm a I'm a dick person, that's the word that I like.
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Yeah, cock takes me out of it.
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But she fluctuates, she switches she switch yes, she switches between cock and dick, which I also don't like.
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Like, pick one, pick one and stick with it.
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I'll go back and forth.
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But like every time she said cock, I was like, oh my god.
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Because that's not sexy.
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I didn't know.
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That's not sexy at all.
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Even though I do, I mean, Malachi's a little crazy, a little crazy, so I do kind of like that.
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I do like that a lot.
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I like I like their dynamic.
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I think this is and you know, I'm not usually a fan of enemies to lovers.
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Welcome, come to my side bag.
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That is not usually my bag, but this is one story where I'm like, okay, this makes sense to me.
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Like, this this works for me.
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They're two monarchs, they're both powerful, they're both beautiful, and they hate each other, but they gotta work together.
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Yeah, like this.
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Exactly.
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I like that.
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I like it, and I I feel like the scenes are so strong, is the only way that I can describe the spicy scenes.
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Yeah, I feel like they're so strong because they're so fueled by that hate, yeah, that just makes it so much hotter because y'all.
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I don't know if you read that, but if you read the book, don't obviously don't let us sweat your opinion.
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If you want to read the book, read the book.
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But the spicy scene, again, like we always say, there's spoilers here.
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The spicy scene were Malachi, Malachi's read, however the hell you say the name.
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Oh, well, first of all, you gotta describe the book.
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We're tripping.
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We you know, we be doing that.
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We be doing that.
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Let me let me give y'all an overview of the book, okay.
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We got the two people that got ADHD that are just literally Rick's usually keep us on track.
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Oh my gosh.
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Okay, we miss it again.
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Um, okay, let me give you an overview.
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So, Khadisha is the arch princess of the Aether Dominion.
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This is these are Faye, okay?
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These are not human beings, they are Faye.
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And Kidisha has her own magic, she's a warrior princess, giving Xena, but black, and her father has essentially sold her away to by marriage to the um, I guess, I don't know.
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My brain wants to say big king.
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The Hyperion king.
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Hyperion King.
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Yes.
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The Hyperion King, Rashad.
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She had he had sold her away.
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She didn't want to be married, she didn't want to marry him.
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She wanted to, you know, do military stuff for her kingdom and take care of her people.
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That's what she wanted.
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Her father wasn't having it, so they moved forward.
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And then on the other side of the aisle, we have Malachizrian, who goes, who we gonna just say Malachi, because that's too much.
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And he is the king of the Apollyan court, newly appointed king.
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He is being currently fueled by rage at the fact that his parents and a whole bunch of monarchs were massacred by Rashad um in an attempt to take his throne.
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But he survived, and now he is king, and he's hunting everybody down.
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So they meet at our girl Khadisha's pleasure club, okay?
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Khadisha owns a pleasure club, okay?
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Okay, and they meet there, it turns out to be a whole thing, and pause pause right there.
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Okay, you know what irritated me about that?
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What?
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First of all, she's she's there, she's like, I'm gonna have one last problem.
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I'm gonna get my nut in before I have to marry this man that I don't like.
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You're you're a military person.
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Granted, obviously, like this is hers, her kingdom is very patriarchal, which I hated, but anyway.
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You know everybody, you know all of your enemies.
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You're telling me you did not know that man was Malachi.
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You didn't know his, you only knew his government name.
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You're supposed to know everybody, girl.
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You were that blinded, you were that horny that you were just like, oh my god, I Malachi.
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She was though, she was that horny.
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Because listen, he didn't his plan, his plan walking into that club was to pursue her and to distract her.
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She ain't even give him a chance, honey.
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Soon as he walked through the door, she walked up to him, like, hey, my room, let's go.
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She put that dick.
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And that's how it went.
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Literally, she didn't give him a chance.
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And that at that point, she might have forgot he had a face because she was focused on the body, like, let's go.
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So I although I can understand that frustration, I'm like, she's she's emotional, she's distraught, she's horny at the same time.
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She's trying to, I don't think she was even thinking about none of that.
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That's true.
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That's true, and I think that's what bothered me too, because again, this is supposed to be an adult woman where I think we have seen in real life that female politicians tend to not lead with their emotions as much as male politicians do.
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This is true.
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But in these books, oftentimes the women do.
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I would I think I would have left her to be more like clear-headed and like cunning versus run on like straight emotion.
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I think it relied on a lot of like I don't I don't want to say misogynist stereotypes, but I guess like certain stereotypes of of a woman leader, basically.
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I can see that yeah, I can see that so yeah, they are that's how they got started, y'all.
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It all started with sex, so that should tell y'all the the level of what second, third chapter.
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Second, I mean second, yeah.
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It was immediate and and and real quick.
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Yeah, they was not playing games.
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But his plan was to also kill everybody at her wedding because again, she's doing this before the wedding.
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But Rashad ends up finding out, which we can assume that his hit that Malachi's people were the ones the ones that spilled the beans, and Rashad ended up being the one that slaughtered everybody.
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Yeah.
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So then Malachi takes her back to his court as a war prize, but it's giving the enemy of my enemy as my friend situation.
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Yeah.
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So I do definitely like it.
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Yeah.
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The the one thing that that that annoyed me a little bit, um, and like part of me understands, but like, I mean, her daddy got burnt up in front of her at her wedding.
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She does not care.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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She's mad about the the innocent people in the you know, her kingdom who who died.
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But I ain't heard her mention that man one time.
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She was like that.
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Oh my god.
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That's one problem taken care of.
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Like, I think it was true.
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Yeah, she was more concerned about the little girls in the corner about to get burnt up.
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But like, I mean, her dad was kind of a dick.
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So I mean, he was.
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That's why I'm like, you know, I can understand on some level, but dang, girl.
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We ain't gonna talk about it.
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No, she just means done.
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That's it, that's done.
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Well, you you remember that Joya the skimmer?
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She used to be like, that's it, that's done.
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Okay.
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Oh, I miss her.
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We're done.
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I know every day much.
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Every day.
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I miss her so I used to want to get, they had a doormat, and I realized it was not a good idea to get, which I never got.
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But it was a doormat.
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I already know what you're gonna say.
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It was a doormat that said, get out of my location house.
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You know, I'm married to a white man, so I really didn't.
00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:41.279
That's not the best funny is he was the one that talked me out.
00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:45.600
He was like, uh I don't think that's gonna be.
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I was like, I was like, oh yeah, yeah, you're right.
00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:54.000
But I do want to get the Jasen, Jocelyne Hernan's Ho, Why is You Here?
00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:56.559
I want to get that because I don't like welcome mats.
00:16:56.720 --> 00:16:58.080
Um that welcome is too much energy.
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I don't like welcome mats to say welcome.
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So I kinda wanna do the ho why is you here because you know, outside of like you and like my parents, I really don't like people at my house.
00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:08.640
So literally.
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I get it.
00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:15.440
Oh Joanne that took me out too single.
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I know I'm gonna find him.
00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:26.240
I feel like one thing that took me out too is the modern language that was used throughout took me out.
00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:28.559
Because when I'm reading fantasy, like again, this is fantasy.
00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:36.160
The only time to me that that works is with um the Granger series.
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Um I'll say that book again.
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Maggie Gray.
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Yes, Maggie Gray.
00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:48.480
Which y'all, I'm sorry, I have to answer Lou because it is necessary that anytime she is mentioned that I proselytize her work.
00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:52.240
Listen, I love Granger, all of her books.
00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:55.200
Okay, but Maggie Gray, we start with Maggie Gray.
00:17:55.279 --> 00:18:02.079
This is top tier, top tier urban fantasy uh monsters, all that.
00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:07.920
Love it, and it like, but and that works because it takes place in the real world, so like the stuff that goes on makes sense.
00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:10.400
But I highlighted, I highlighted a few things.
00:18:10.640 --> 00:18:15.599
Um, you have to have a different description or out over a stiletto shape nail.
00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:20.240
A stiletto shape nail, you you can't use other descriptors like pointy, because again, this is fantasy.
00:18:20.319 --> 00:18:22.319
Why why are we why are we using stiletto?
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Um what else?
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What else?
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Dick down.
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Why are we using dick down?
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That doesn't make any sense.
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You don't know what that means.
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Using things like it pissed her off.
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Oh, this one, this one got me.
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I clocked your magic levels the moment you stepped into this room.
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Bitch, get out of here.
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What do you mean?
00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:57.920
And then um, as much as I love the girls, as much as I love the girls, because you know I love me a girl, that took me out to because I think there are ways to describe these things in a fantasy-like way without using modern words, yeah.
00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:06.559
But if it wasn't for the fact that the languages were so like imperial towards the beginning, it probably wouldn't have standed out so much.
00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:12.880
But yes, um, and she flipped it, probably wouldn't have stood out so much, but yeah, at the beginning it was like super imperial.
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I shall, I must, you know, things like this, and then all of a sudden, you know, they didn't say this for real, but like they were like, Oh, fuck you, nigga.
00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:26.720
I don't know where, but like it wasn't really that, but you get what I'm trying to say.
00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:32.240
Like there's another part too where brick swing where she said, How could she not feel the type of way?
00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:34.079
Like, are you kidding me right now?
00:19:34.559 --> 00:19:50.480
But that I think that's that's the biggest thing that took me out of it because it's like, and it was again that that back and forth of speaking very properly and then going into modern speak, and then I feel like I feel like stuff like that works.
00:19:50.640 --> 00:19:57.039
I think it works in spicy scenes though, because I mean what what is what is fancy imperial dirty talk gonna sound like, you know what I mean?
00:19:57.200 --> 00:20:11.759
Like I mean, like I can think of some ways that I think would have been like more eloquent and very sexy, but I mean, granted, it was all from what I have read, it was it was sexy.
00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:15.759
I would have been I would have been I would have been with Malachi too, so I don't know.
00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:20.559
He was he was he was different.
00:20:20.640 --> 00:20:22.480
This is a different MMC.
00:20:23.759 --> 00:20:29.920
He's like ruthless, he does not care, but he's extremely passionate.
00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:31.680
Yeah, this was good.
00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:38.960
I and you know, like I said towards the beginning, like a lot of this stuff got easier for me the more I read.
00:20:39.200 --> 00:20:50.880
And I guess because I got more into the story, but like it it does stand out initially when you're reading you know the language changes, or then they're describing things that are seem more modern.
00:20:51.200 --> 00:21:02.480
But I you know, as the story goes, I'm like, okay, I'm I'm liking it, and I I want to finish it eventually because like I said, y'all, we're like five, we're like halfway through.
00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:09.119
This one was long, and I don't mind a long book, but you know, for the show, we usually read a little bit shorter stuff.
00:21:09.359 --> 00:21:12.160
So do you think it was an easier read?
00:21:12.400 --> 00:21:13.839
It would have been we would have finished it.
00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:20.960
As I've read long books, I can finish long books, but I think because it took us a second to really dive in, do you think that was a reason?
00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:25.920
I think that was definitely a part of it because it was it was it was a hard start, I'll say that.
00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:27.359
It was a hard start.
00:21:27.519 --> 00:21:36.240
Um, for one, I don't think I like I knew this was a fantasy, I didn't realize it was like a world building fantasy type thing.
00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:44.559
Um and that's very different, and that that does take a lot of concentration in any in any style.
00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:48.720
Because like I said, I love fantasy, but oh, is it yes?
00:21:48.799 --> 00:21:53.279
I think it's a one off so I think she could put everything in one that that's making sense.
00:21:56.160 --> 00:21:57.359
You can sprinkle in, yeah.
00:21:57.519 --> 00:21:58.160
Yeah, yeah.
00:21:58.319 --> 00:21:59.759
No, she had to describe all the world.
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And all the creatures and all the powers in one book.
00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:14.319
And it, you know, you could kind of tell it was a little um, it felt like it was a little hard at first to kind of get into the flow of it, but once you're in the flow of it, it's a good story.
00:22:14.880 --> 00:22:23.920
Um and like my thing was, and I guess we can use this as a segue into the first question.
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With everything that was going on in the story, do you think that the motivation that Kadesha had and Malachi had was worth the massacre at the wedding?
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And everything that's happening now.
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No.
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Okay.
00:22:45.119 --> 00:22:51.519
No, me neither! Now, and that's me liking the story and everything, but it was just like, oh, y'all give it a queen.
00:22:51.920 --> 00:23:00.160
I think yes, I think she needed a catalyst, but like I was, I mean, that was a plot twist for me because I wasn't expecting Rashad to be like, hold the phone.
00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:00.880
We're not getting there.
00:23:01.039 --> 00:23:02.480
I wasn't I wasn't expecting that.
00:23:02.559 --> 00:23:07.279
I was fully expecting Malcolm to just yeah, so I wasn't expecting that.
00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:39.279
But like that's a lot because you can easily start a war without like doing all that, like he really did the most, but at the same time, it's like she hated Rashad, so I feel like she needed to meet Malachi in a way because even when when when Khadija and first of all, also side note, then I love the names because as I'm reading this, I was like, damn, like black typical black names are magical as fuck.
00:23:39.519 --> 00:23:40.160
Yes, they are.
00:23:40.559 --> 00:24:00.559
Like I loved all of that, but yeah, so anyway, when her crew, the Nikita come come to Malachi's kingdom, and you know, they're they're giving her shit for happen beating an orgy, like somebody told me that what you were doing, but she was like, No, bitch, like he has this power that I've never seen before.
00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:08.640
So I think she she eventually is gonna need him because yeah, when he like when she when he showed off his power the first time, I was like, Oh my god.
00:24:09.279 --> 00:24:10.319
Oh my god.
00:24:13.279 --> 00:24:15.920
Like, oh my god, but yeah, yeah.
00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:17.519
Ugh, I agree.
00:24:17.680 --> 00:24:23.599
They they're they and they're starting to realize they need each other at this point in the story that we're in.
00:24:23.839 --> 00:24:26.480
Um, I guess we'll give spoilers up to this point.
00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:32.640
Yeah, the point of the story that we're in now, she's good and back at his castle.
00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:35.359
Somebody done tried to kill her after the orgy.
00:24:36.319 --> 00:24:42.880
Where, okay, I want y'all to understand, this is this is yes, yes, it was spicy, okay.
00:24:43.039 --> 00:24:44.799
But there was a point to the spice, okay?
00:24:44.960 --> 00:24:52.640
Because Malachi's goal is to make Rashad jealous because he has his fiance.
00:24:53.119 --> 00:24:55.839
I mean, whether she wanted to be or not, that was his fiance.
00:24:56.079 --> 00:24:57.519
They was finna get married.
00:24:57.759 --> 00:24:58.720
He has him.
00:24:59.279 --> 00:25:01.359
He fucked her in front of everybody.
00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:03.839
He wanted it to get back to him.
00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:11.200
He wanted it to because he wants Rashad to come to the castle or to start the war so that he can get revenge for his family.
00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:15.519
Wait, but no, he didn't because remember when they were done, they had like that shadow cloud around them.
00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:16.319
So like in this.
00:25:16.559 --> 00:25:18.960
Oh no, that's just because he wanted to finish a different place.
00:25:19.359 --> 00:25:22.240
But yeah.
00:25:22.880 --> 00:25:24.079
He was just too into it.
00:25:24.880 --> 00:25:26.240
Y'all, that scene was crazy.
00:25:26.640 --> 00:25:28.240
Listen, my face the whole entire time.
00:25:28.400 --> 00:25:32.640
I'm sitting there just like my eyes are like wide almost like oh my god.
00:25:33.119 --> 00:25:34.240
It got nasty.
00:25:37.839 --> 00:25:39.759
Which that made up to me for the first scene.
00:25:39.839 --> 00:25:44.240
Because the first scene wasn't that hot to me, but this one was like, oh my god.
00:25:44.799 --> 00:25:45.519
Yeah, he was.
00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:49.599
So I do kind of I do kind of want to read more for that.
00:25:50.319 --> 00:25:53.440
I feel like my brain is full of is full of like freaking TikTok sounds.
00:25:53.519 --> 00:25:55.200
I feel like you're just here for the zipline.
00:25:55.359 --> 00:26:03.359
Like I just want, because it's just nasty.
00:26:03.519 --> 00:26:06.640
It's just nasty, and I like it.
00:26:06.720 --> 00:26:16.880
And then like what I like about too, because you know, I'm not a I don't know if this is too personal.
00:26:17.039 --> 00:26:21.839
I don't like it when a man tells a woman what to do in bed.
00:26:22.319 --> 00:26:23.519
I don't like it.
00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:25.200
Absolutely not.
00:26:27.839 --> 00:26:33.119
But I like that there's a push and pull with them, that they're both dominant.
00:26:33.279 --> 00:26:34.720
Oh, I ate that shit up.
00:26:34.880 --> 00:26:36.960
They're dominant together, yes.
00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:39.599
Uminating the other.
00:26:39.839 --> 00:26:42.240
Yes, and that's great about each other.
00:26:42.319 --> 00:26:49.119
They're yeah, yeah, their dynamic is very, oh, okay, we're both powerful.
00:26:49.359 --> 00:26:53.359
So let's basically be powerful against each other in bed.
00:26:53.680 --> 00:26:55.759
Basically, and they like that, yeah.
00:26:56.000 --> 00:27:02.799
They like that, they like the challenge because I mean we meet we meet Malachi in bed with somebody random.
00:27:02.960 --> 00:27:03.599
That's how we meet.
00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:05.440
That's that was our introduction.
00:27:05.680 --> 00:27:22.880
Yeah, like oh and okay, our girl Khadisha owns a sex club, so they're both, you know, sex is nothing for them, but to have this dynamic with someone equally as powerful as them, that's what's like good, good, good.
00:27:23.519 --> 00:27:24.079
Good for them.
00:27:24.319 --> 00:27:37.200
So, like, what other scene that I did I like that was so little that like I don't know why I liked it when it's when she gets when she's about to get assassin, he's like, the guy's like feeling her womb to see if she's pregnant or whatever, and she's like, Oh, not my fertility year.
00:27:37.359 --> 00:27:39.119
And Malachi's like, Yeah, I know.
00:27:39.200 --> 00:27:40.319
And then she's like, What the hell?
00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:41.519
She's like, Oh, we can smell it.
00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:48.079
I was like, Oh first of all, how lucky are they?
00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:56.480
They get a whole year without period, like just free to do whatever's okay.
00:27:56.799 --> 00:28:00.640
Oh my god, wow, to be a fee, to be a fee.
00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:01.839
I know that's true.
00:28:02.079 --> 00:28:21.839
Um, okay, so speaking of them being powerful and stuff like that together, each Fey Kingdom in this book has different powers, they have the elemental powers, but then Khadisha and Malachi have special powers.
00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:28.960
Kadisha has Aether power, which is basically like the power of the air.
00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:30.160
Aether?
00:28:30.400 --> 00:28:31.440
I don't know, let's look it up.
00:28:31.680 --> 00:28:32.240
Creation?
00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:34.960
Something like that.
00:28:35.200 --> 00:28:35.920
Energy.
00:28:36.960 --> 00:28:37.519
Hold on.
00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:39.920
They call it aether flames.
00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:41.119
Yeah.
00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:41.759
Okay.
00:28:42.079 --> 00:28:50.160
Aether refers fundamentally to the pure upper air or bright blue sky view pathology personified as a primordial primordial deity.
00:28:50.559 --> 00:28:57.119
So, yeah, so I guess what exactly is Aether?
00:28:57.440 --> 00:29:04.559
The pure bright upper air breathed by the gods and the mythical fifth element of the cosmos.
00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:05.119
Okay.
00:29:05.759 --> 00:29:06.079
Okay.
00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:07.039
Yeah.
00:29:08.319 --> 00:29:18.160
And then Malachi's power is from the void, which is the space between realms and between worlds.
00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:24.480
So it's like nothingness, but can also heal because there's nothingness.
00:29:25.279 --> 00:29:28.400
So they're really cool.
00:29:28.799 --> 00:29:35.039
And so my next question is which one would you like to have if you had if you got to manifest some fei powers?
00:29:35.599 --> 00:29:37.440
I would probably do the void.
00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:38.799
Really?
00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:43.039
I would do the void because it seems very powerful.
00:29:44.799 --> 00:29:50.400
And it just seems better than all the other ones.
00:29:50.480 --> 00:29:57.519
I like the one character, the one female character in Malachi's cadre that like she's able to also manipulate temperature.
00:29:58.319 --> 00:30:02.160
Well, I think they all they all can basically, but they they can teleport.
00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:07.440
They can again create void spaces to get to where they like I I would love that.
00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:11.279
And they can they can create weapons out of nothing.
00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:14.319
Like, yeah, yeah, I would want that.
00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:17.839
I would I would like to teleport.
00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:22.960
That would be the the one thing that I would want from the void powers, but I think I would rather be Aether.
00:30:23.839 --> 00:30:35.519
Only because it's framed in the book as more like energy and like being able to like you know create from the air.
00:30:35.759 --> 00:30:37.039
And then they get the animals.
00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:38.640
What's the animals called again?
00:30:38.880 --> 00:30:41.440
Um I kept saying Komodo Dragon.
00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:46.240
Yeah.
00:30:46.480 --> 00:30:46.720
Okay.
00:30:46.880 --> 00:30:47.759
I think that's right.
00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:50.000
Which is basically a dragon, right?
00:30:50.079 --> 00:30:51.759
I mean called the serpent.
00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:52.799
Thing, yeah.
00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:53.200
Yeah.
00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:54.160
That's true.
00:30:54.720 --> 00:30:58.079
That was very Pandora, very Pandora Avatar-ish.
00:30:58.799 --> 00:31:00.960
So yeah, I guess that's cool that they get the animals.
00:31:01.119 --> 00:31:01.440
Yeah.
00:31:01.680 --> 00:31:02.000
Yeah.
00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:06.559
I would like to fly on the serpent dragon flying thing.
00:31:09.039 --> 00:31:10.640
I really like that.
00:31:12.240 --> 00:31:13.279
So, okay.
00:31:13.519 --> 00:31:18.880
Here is I'm going, I'm gonna go back to the um, because I forgot about this question.
00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:25.440
But this kind of goes back to my my my thing with enemies to lovers.
00:31:26.720 --> 00:31:31.440
Because like this is kind of trauma bonding, right?
00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:34.799
It seems like it to me.
00:31:35.200 --> 00:31:37.279
Like, do they actually like each other?
00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:44.880
I don't think like sometimes I think they do, but like I well, when they first met, she didn't know it was Malachi, and she was immediately attracted to him.
00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:46.480
She was like, What is going on?
00:31:46.960 --> 00:31:50.000
Like no other man has been.
00:31:50.319 --> 00:31:53.599
I also hate that she kept saying male, like that irritated me too bad anyway.
00:31:53.839 --> 00:31:54.880
Okay, wait, wait, wait.
00:31:54.960 --> 00:32:01.119
I want to address that because I have like two moments highlighted here where they call each other female or male.
00:32:01.359 --> 00:32:04.079
But then I thought about it and I was like, okay, wait.
00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:11.119
Well, they're not people, they are a male fee and a female fee.
00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:19.839
True, but I'm trying to remember like other fantasies I've read where they do they describe themselves as man and woman.
00:32:21.599 --> 00:32:23.440
Like that's a great question.
00:32:23.599 --> 00:32:24.319
I don't know.
00:32:25.039 --> 00:32:36.480
I don't think I've read many besides besides Granger, honestly, that had like that focused a lot on their I know.
00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:37.519
No.
00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:41.200
I'm trying to think back to Lord of the Rings, because that's like the biggest fantasy that I read.
00:32:41.279 --> 00:33:01.200
But this was also if they use that, like, but I've noticed that a lot in in some fantasies now, whereas like they use male or female to describe you know whatever creature that it is.
00:33:02.079 --> 00:33:06.799
But that a lot bothered me, but that's fine.
00:33:07.119 --> 00:33:12.640
But I think it is, I think it is what I think now that you asked that question, I do think it is trauma bonding.
00:33:15.359 --> 00:33:21.759
But I don't know what it is, but it is what it isn't, but they're also just really horny for each other.
00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:26.240
Yeah, they are outside of the trauma because they didn't trauma bond to begin with.
00:33:27.200 --> 00:33:28.000
You know what I mean?
00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:29.519
Yeah, this is true.
00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:36.079
But it was on site, they they were and then when they when she was walking to her wedding, she saw him.
00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:37.599
Yeah, but he was in a disguise.
00:33:38.319 --> 00:33:42.400
And he wasn't she was in she was in a whole disguise, and she was still just like, wait, who was that?
00:33:42.480 --> 00:33:43.119
Who's that man?
00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:46.480
So I mean I think it's just literally his aura.
00:33:47.119 --> 00:33:49.920
It must be, and he's the same way with her.
00:33:50.559 --> 00:33:53.759
Yeah, I just gosh.
00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:58.079
I really this is my rub with enemies to lovers, though.
00:33:58.160 --> 00:34:00.559
And I go back and forth about it because I like this story.
00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:01.759
I do, I like this book.
00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:11.920
I'm gonna finish this book, but it's just like dang, like, why we gotta, you know, like you did you done threatened my life 18 times.
00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:13.519
That's what makes it hot.
00:34:14.800 --> 00:34:15.679
That's what makes it hot.
00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:17.119
But you wanna kill me.
00:34:17.360 --> 00:34:19.360
I don't I don't know.
00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:24.960
You wanna kill me, I want to kill you, but there's also this really big sexual tension, and we're just gonna fuck it out.
00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:28.400
I mean, yeah, but damn, that's a lot to fuck out.
00:34:29.920 --> 00:34:31.519
I mean, and they're doing it.
00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:55.519
The way the way I think about it, and this is not like this is such a bad analogy, such a bad analogy, but like makeup sex, like that's kind of the same thing because you just get I don't know, like I don't you've just been so like irritated with each other that you also get turned on by each other.
00:34:55.679 --> 00:34:56.079
I don't know.
00:34:56.159 --> 00:35:05.519
Maybe maybe I've just tried you know no no no, but this this might be the answer to why I don't like it, because I don't do that.
00:35:05.920 --> 00:35:07.119
Stay away from me.
00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:09.039
Fuck you, get out of my face.
00:35:09.119 --> 00:35:10.480
You better not touch me.
00:35:10.639 --> 00:35:12.320
Like that's I wish I would.
00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:14.159
If I'm mad, I'm mad.
00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:16.239
Don't come around me.
00:35:19.119 --> 00:35:20.639
And this this explains it.
00:35:20.719 --> 00:35:21.840
I'm glad we talked it.
00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:22.719
This is a good talk.
00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:30.159
Because this explains it, because I've never I've never really done, I've never really been into enemies of lovers, because that I just don't be getting it.
00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:38.159
Like, no, I want the one where they immediately love each other and immediately he's doing things for her, and immediately we get married.
00:35:38.320 --> 00:35:52.960
Like maybe I think that's like the top, that's like the toxic part because I don't know if if you've ever seen like the TikToks of like your basic like New York City couple, and it's like the couple on the street, like cussing each other out, going back and forth, and somebody like steps in, like, are you good?
00:35:53.039 --> 00:35:59.840
They're like, Yeah, what like what what the fuck you what mind your own business like it's between them, and then a couple hours later they're fine.
00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:04.239
So I think I think that's also what it is for me, too.
00:36:04.480 --> 00:36:14.400
Cause that's like very because I'm I'm 10 times more aggressive than my husband is, and my aggression comes out of nowhere, and he's just like, What?
00:36:14.559 --> 00:36:15.760
Like, he's like, What?
00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:18.639
What did I do?
00:36:20.400 --> 00:36:27.280
So I think I'm always like, I'm trying to think what got me into enemies to lovers to begin with, like that made me like that.
00:36:27.360 --> 00:36:29.760
I watch something, did I read something?
00:36:31.280 --> 00:36:33.360
No, I know what it is.
00:36:33.920 --> 00:36:38.159
Cheetah Girls, Cheetah Girls, Cheetah Girls, bitch.
00:36:38.239 --> 00:36:46.800
Listen, the first movie was David's mother fine-ass white boy, because they cheated, like he would he was on to her, but like they had the little thing going on, but then eventually she just gave in.
00:36:46.960 --> 00:36:48.159
I was like, oh yes.
00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:49.599
So that's like a little bit.
00:36:49.679 --> 00:36:50.800
I didn't like that either.
00:36:51.039 --> 00:36:52.320
And I love Cheetah Girls.
00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:53.679
I hated that boy.
00:36:54.480 --> 00:36:56.159
I didn't want her to do it.
00:36:56.400 --> 00:36:57.519
I no doubt.
00:37:01.360 --> 00:37:06.960
He's ugly now, he did not age very well, but he's on some like cop show now.
00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:09.360
He's like a receding hairline, but anyway.
00:37:09.679 --> 00:37:11.760
Lord, I was like, that can't be the same one.
00:37:11.920 --> 00:37:12.719
But what's the thing?
00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:18.400
And besides your head is boo, like ate that up.
00:37:18.800 --> 00:37:26.400
But I think that's what like that's what started it, and then now it's just like and now I tend to like the toxic men in TV shows.
00:37:26.480 --> 00:37:27.679
What's the what's another TV show?
00:37:27.760 --> 00:37:29.519
Good girls, Rio from Good Girls.
00:37:29.599 --> 00:37:29.840
Absolutely.
00:37:33.039 --> 00:37:35.440
He's he's an outlier, he's an outlier.
00:37:35.599 --> 00:37:37.760
I wanted Ray to do it from the beginning.
00:37:38.880 --> 00:37:40.000
No, for the neck time.
00:37:40.559 --> 00:37:44.000
Immediately, yeah, yes, like she took too long for me.
00:37:44.719 --> 00:37:45.679
That was a good show.
00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:47.679
That really was easy to cancel.
00:37:48.800 --> 00:37:49.119
I know.
00:37:49.280 --> 00:37:51.519
I want to rewatch some of the best shows.
00:37:51.840 --> 00:37:52.320
I know.
00:37:53.039 --> 00:37:53.760
That was the album.
00:37:54.079 --> 00:37:54.960
That's my girl anyway.
00:37:55.039 --> 00:37:55.920
I love her and everything.
00:37:56.159 --> 00:37:56.639
Me too.
00:37:56.880 --> 00:38:01.280
Um, because I was re-watching um Mad Men.
00:38:01.599 --> 00:38:02.320
Did you tell me to watch that?
00:38:03.679 --> 00:38:04.639
Yes, I did tell you to watch that.
00:38:04.800 --> 00:38:06.000
I gotta watch too much stuff.
00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:07.760
It's crazy, but it's good.
00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:09.599
Girl, I got I gotta watch Mad Men.
00:38:09.679 --> 00:38:12.480
I have to watch Mr.
00:38:12.639 --> 00:38:13.280
Robot.
00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:16.159
Girl, you still haven't watched Mr.
00:38:16.239 --> 00:38:16.639
Robot.
00:38:16.800 --> 00:38:18.960
No, then my friend Lula, shout out Lula.
00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:35.119
But I feel like I'm watching too many shows that are like are too trauma-ish, because right now I'm doing Animal Kingdom, which that's a lot, and six seasons.
00:38:35.360 --> 00:38:37.199
But I feel like if I could do Shameless, I can do this.
00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:40.719
Because Shameless, that was that was Shameless was a lot.
00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:41.679
Shameless was a lot.
00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:42.480
So good, though.
00:38:42.960 --> 00:38:43.519
Really good.
00:38:43.599 --> 00:38:46.559
But that I trucked, I trucked through, but do I have to do Mr.
00:38:46.639 --> 00:38:47.119
Robot?
00:38:47.280 --> 00:38:50.320
I have to do Mad Men.
00:38:51.199 --> 00:38:53.760
There's a new show on HBO Max called Half Man.
00:38:53.840 --> 00:38:55.920
It's by the same guy who did Baby Reindeer.
00:38:56.800 --> 00:38:57.360
Oh no.
00:38:58.239 --> 00:38:58.800
Absolutely not.
00:38:59.119 --> 00:39:00.880
Baby Reindeer gave me nightmares.
00:39:01.199 --> 00:39:02.239
Absolutely not.
00:39:02.639 --> 00:39:03.920
I will not be watching anything else.
00:39:04.239 --> 00:39:05.360
And apparently it's just as crazy.
00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:08.000
It's only episode two, and people are like, what the fuck?
00:39:08.320 --> 00:39:08.960
Half Man.
00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:10.320
Let me look this up.
00:39:11.199 --> 00:39:13.840
So I think it's about like two brothers.
00:39:14.159 --> 00:39:16.400
They're not brothers or like, you know, brothers from another mother.
00:39:16.559 --> 00:39:17.679
They're not blood brothers.
00:39:17.920 --> 00:39:19.599
There might be some gay stuff going on.
00:39:19.760 --> 00:39:20.320
I don't know.
00:39:20.559 --> 00:39:21.599
Oh, Jesus.
00:39:21.840 --> 00:39:23.599
So, but you know, that gets my attention.
00:39:23.679 --> 00:39:24.559
So I'm like, oh yeah.
00:39:24.639 --> 00:39:27.840
So watch that.
00:39:28.079 --> 00:39:29.119
Oh my gosh.
00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:29.679
Okay.
00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:32.960
Yeah, this looks insane.
00:39:33.440 --> 00:39:36.159
Um, yeah, I won't be watching it.
00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:39.599
I need low stress at the moment.
00:39:39.760 --> 00:39:40.159
Uh-uh.
00:39:40.400 --> 00:39:41.199
Yeah, I need to find out.
00:39:41.519 --> 00:39:41.920
Yeah, Mr.
00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:42.880
Robot is good.
00:39:43.840 --> 00:39:44.400
I watched that one.
00:39:44.639 --> 00:39:48.000
Mad Men is pretty low stress, I would say.
00:39:49.039 --> 00:39:49.360
Okay.
00:39:49.760 --> 00:39:51.840
And there's some Korean show I want to watch.
00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:53.760
I forgot the name of it.
00:39:54.159 --> 00:39:58.079
I think it's also like an enemies to lovers type of thing.
00:39:59.519 --> 00:40:00.559
But damn.
00:40:01.679 --> 00:40:02.719
We beered so off.
00:40:02.960 --> 00:40:07.119
I think it I think personally, I think, I think it is top tier and it is trauma bonding.
00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:08.480
So I think it's both.
00:40:08.719 --> 00:40:10.639
Because I both and together.
00:40:10.960 --> 00:40:11.440
Like that.
00:40:11.760 --> 00:40:12.320
That's fair.
00:40:12.480 --> 00:40:12.960
That's fair.
00:40:13.039 --> 00:40:17.920
Because I mean, honestly, this is this is the first time where I've been like super into it.
00:40:18.159 --> 00:40:22.159
Now, granted, you know that Jick Jacoby?
00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:22.559
Yes.
00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:25.840
I was like, when they when they got each other's faces, I was like, no, kiss.
00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:27.679
No kiss each other.
00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:31.280
Basically.
00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:34.320
No, I I see that coming.
00:40:34.559 --> 00:40:36.960
And I guess we can start talking about what we think is gonna happen.
00:40:37.119 --> 00:40:38.960
Because I definitely see that coming.
00:40:39.360 --> 00:40:48.079
Um I also think that Malachi's cousin is the one that's portraying him.
00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:50.400
Tristan?
00:40:51.199 --> 00:40:52.159
Tristan.
00:40:52.639 --> 00:40:55.039
I think he's the one who's betraying him.
00:40:57.679 --> 00:40:58.639
And I'm gonna tell you why.
00:40:58.719 --> 00:40:59.760
Yes, I'm gonna tell you why.
00:40:59.920 --> 00:41:03.440
Okay, before I before I say this, what part are you at again in the book?
00:41:03.519 --> 00:41:12.480
I'm at I'm at the part like right when like right after like she gets the attempted assassination, and they're all coming together, and he's like, what the fuck is going on?
00:41:12.559 --> 00:41:18.239
They find it's Lady Nayari or whatever, like one of her people, and I'm at that chapter 15 basically.
00:41:18.480 --> 00:41:19.920
Okay, you're not there yet.
00:41:20.079 --> 00:41:22.639
I'm not gonna say why, I think, but you will see.
00:41:22.800 --> 00:41:24.719
I think it's Tristan, unfortunately.
00:41:25.039 --> 00:41:27.599
No, baby Tristan, I love him.
00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:30.800
Yeah, I think it's I think it's a trick.
00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:34.960
I can't tell yet if I think the aunt is in on it or not.
00:41:35.280 --> 00:41:38.079
I don't want to, I don't want her to be in on it.
00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:39.760
Because what does she gain though?
00:41:39.840 --> 00:41:40.639
What does she gain?
00:41:40.800 --> 00:41:42.800
Because she's already Queen Mother, basically.
00:41:43.039 --> 00:41:43.280
Yeah.
00:41:43.519 --> 00:41:44.320
So what does she think?
00:41:44.400 --> 00:41:46.480
But she's not anymore, remember?
00:41:48.400 --> 00:41:51.199
Because now he's kind of taking his place.
00:41:51.440 --> 00:41:53.119
I think it got something to do with that.
00:41:53.199 --> 00:41:53.920
I really do.
00:41:55.599 --> 00:41:56.719
That's gonna break my heart.
00:41:56.880 --> 00:41:58.079
That's gonna break my heart.
00:41:58.320 --> 00:42:00.159
Yeah, that wasn't even interesting.
00:42:00.320 --> 00:42:08.159
I like his character, but he just trusts him so implicitly at this point, and I think that's like a tale.
00:42:09.440 --> 00:42:10.960
He wasn't even on my radar.
00:42:11.039 --> 00:42:13.440
I'm gonna be absolutely devastated if that's the case.
00:42:13.599 --> 00:42:16.000
Like, I can't wait till you know the next chapter.
00:42:16.159 --> 00:42:17.039
I need you to.
00:42:17.519 --> 00:42:21.519
I know you're not sure, but I need you to at least read.
00:42:21.840 --> 00:42:23.760
Like I said, I'm here for the zipline.
00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:25.119
Give me all the give me how many more.
00:42:25.440 --> 00:42:25.920
You won't okay.
00:42:27.440 --> 00:42:27.679
Okay.
00:42:28.239 --> 00:42:32.719
Well, then when you get to that part, I want you to text me because I know you're gonna see it as soon as I do.
00:42:33.039 --> 00:42:33.599
What chapter?
00:42:33.760 --> 00:42:34.480
What chapter now?
00:42:34.719 --> 00:42:36.000
It's literally the next chapter.
00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:37.119
Okay.
00:42:37.360 --> 00:42:39.679
You got maybe maybe two chapters, maybe two.
00:42:39.840 --> 00:42:40.639
Okay, okay, okay.
00:42:40.800 --> 00:42:41.519
But I think so.
00:42:41.599 --> 00:42:44.239
Outside of that, I wasn't even thinking that about the betrayal.
00:42:44.320 --> 00:43:00.000
I was thinking, to me, I feel like, because you know how they have like one United Kingdom and like the the Apol Apolly Apollyon Kingdom, their goddess was the main goddess that everybody worshipped, which is why I think they're so powerful.
00:43:00.320 --> 00:43:06.159
But I think the Aether Kingdom and the the Apollyon Kingdom are supposed to be together.
00:43:06.400 --> 00:43:06.719
Yes.
00:43:06.880 --> 00:43:08.559
So I think their powers are supposed to be together.
00:43:08.719 --> 00:43:10.079
Of course, they're gonna end up together.
00:43:10.159 --> 00:43:11.760
I would hope that they're gonna end up together.
00:43:11.840 --> 00:43:21.280
They're gonna have a little Aether Apollyon baby that's gonna be like powerful, kind of reminds you of like Jack Jack from The Incredibles, just doing a bunch of shit like that's basically.
00:43:22.320 --> 00:43:33.679
I think that's why people are so like trying to get him out of here, because you know, the prophecy that they haven't told us what the prophecy is yet exactly, but yes, it's got something to do with whoever his baby's gonna be.
00:43:33.920 --> 00:43:34.320
Yes.
00:43:34.719 --> 00:43:36.400
So I think that's gonna happen.
00:43:36.719 --> 00:43:43.360
But oh my god, I'm so stuck on Tristan because no.
00:43:44.639 --> 00:43:45.280
I know.
00:43:45.599 --> 00:43:48.079
But it's gotta be somebody that's close to him.
00:43:48.559 --> 00:43:55.599
Because whoever these whoever like these people who are against him, they keep knowing exactly where he's doing where he's at.
00:43:56.559 --> 00:43:58.639
But it could be anybody in his group though.
00:43:59.360 --> 00:43:59.679
Anybody.
00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:01.360
It's Tristan.
00:44:01.840 --> 00:44:05.920
His his his cadres be with him.
00:44:07.840 --> 00:44:08.480
Yeah.
00:44:08.719 --> 00:44:11.360
Tristan disappears and appears.
00:44:11.599 --> 00:44:14.000
He's gone and he comes in the room.
00:44:14.320 --> 00:44:21.360
He was also there all of a sudden when the other cousin busted up in there, like, oh yeah.
00:44:21.679 --> 00:44:22.400
You but they were fighting.
00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:23.519
Take your throne.
00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:26.559
Yeah, but Tristan just happened to be there.
00:44:26.800 --> 00:44:28.320
That's all I'm saying.
00:44:29.599 --> 00:44:31.840
He just happened to be there to stop it.
00:44:34.000 --> 00:44:34.880
It's giving suspect.
00:44:34.960 --> 00:44:38.320
It's giving right place, right time all the time.
00:44:40.239 --> 00:44:41.519
Oh my god.
00:44:42.880 --> 00:44:44.559
I can't wait to see, honestly.
00:44:44.719 --> 00:44:46.880
And this is like I'm I'm gonna finish this.
00:44:46.960 --> 00:44:54.880
I can't, I'm gonna have to finish it probably this week, but I yeah, I need to know because I really do think it's him.
00:44:55.199 --> 00:44:57.760
And also I need to know what the freaking prophecy is.
00:44:57.920 --> 00:45:00.400
Like they're hinting towards it, but I want to know the fool.
00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:01.440
I know.
00:45:02.800 --> 00:45:09.599
And then they keep saying that with with Rashad, he wants her to be pregnant because her baby is supposed to be like Yeah.
00:45:10.880 --> 00:45:13.840
Wait! Wait, because her baby's supposed to like what?
00:45:13.920 --> 00:45:15.360
Like bring everybody together, right?
00:45:16.480 --> 00:45:20.000
Of the six kingdoms, and then his baby is supposed to destroy.
00:45:20.239 --> 00:45:21.920
So what if it's both?
00:45:23.119 --> 00:45:24.639
That makes sense.
00:45:24.960 --> 00:45:26.800
Because think about it, her power comes.
00:45:26.960 --> 00:45:27.679
Wait, no, no, no.
00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:29.599
Is it her power that comes from the moon?
00:45:30.079 --> 00:45:32.239
No, it's it's his, it's his power comes from the moon.
00:45:32.480 --> 00:45:33.679
His power comes from the moon.
00:45:33.840 --> 00:45:34.159
Yeah.
00:45:34.400 --> 00:45:38.800
Her power comes from whatever the air, fifth elbow.
00:45:39.920 --> 00:45:41.280
We're gonna go with that.
00:45:41.519 --> 00:45:48.639
It seems like it's you know, compatible, build up on each other type thing.
00:45:50.639 --> 00:45:54.960
I'm I'm so stuck on oh my god, I'm so stuck on Tristan.
00:45:55.039 --> 00:45:56.800
That really that's really gonna devastate me.
00:45:57.519 --> 00:46:06.800
But one, I think one question you had too that I liked, um how they talk about systemic corruption and the cost of war.
00:46:07.679 --> 00:46:12.960
Oh yeah, which is very fitting for, you know.
00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:18.320
We're just you know a specific time out of work of the book, of course.
00:46:18.719 --> 00:46:37.119
However, some people just really use war to control and to grab power without considering what's going on, and this is part of why I asked the earlier question like, is this all worth it?
00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:41.119
Like, all of this yard, like you want your freedom, yes.
00:46:41.280 --> 00:46:43.519
I understand you're not wrong for that.
00:46:44.079 --> 00:46:45.840
He wants to avenge his parents.
00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:46.719
Okay, I get it.
00:46:46.800 --> 00:47:04.159
You're not necessarily wrong for that, but y'all playing with the lives of people who ain't really got nothing to do with this, basically, basically, you know, so and I don't like that and they both and they both sides wanted to start a war.
00:47:04.239 --> 00:47:09.280
Mainly, well, obviously, Khadija, she just wanted to be with her girls and ride her little dragon.
00:47:09.519 --> 00:47:26.480
But Rashad wanted to start a war, and then I think Rashad wanted to start the war out of greed, yeah, and then Malachi is just more vengeance driven, which for me I can get behind that.
00:47:26.639 --> 00:47:33.519
Not the war part, but being vengeance-driven versus just like I mean, he's not wrong, they killed his people, yeah.
00:47:33.679 --> 00:47:36.000
So of course he wants revenge.
00:47:38.159 --> 00:47:49.760
It's just like, man, y'all, y'all could have as hard as they fighting each other, y'all could have kept this in the in the throne room, y'all could have talked it out, you know.
00:47:50.880 --> 00:47:54.800
We we we blowing up castles and we massacring the people.
00:47:54.880 --> 00:47:56.559
I'm just like, oh my god.
00:47:56.719 --> 00:47:57.039
No.
00:47:57.280 --> 00:48:01.599
I mean, and this she did give a little content warning at the beginning.
00:48:01.760 --> 00:48:04.239
By the way, there is a content warning.
00:48:04.400 --> 00:48:09.840
Obviously, if you can't tell by this episode, which I will be putting a content warning in the show notes.
00:48:10.159 --> 00:48:14.639
Um, it is it is it is very war focused.
00:48:14.719 --> 00:48:20.079
It is a they are war in kingdoms, and you see that in this book.
00:48:20.320 --> 00:48:20.960
Yes.
00:48:21.679 --> 00:48:23.519
Ugh, but we will finish it.
00:48:23.760 --> 00:48:26.400
We will finish it.
00:48:26.480 --> 00:48:29.280
But again, like we said, life life is lifing.
00:48:29.679 --> 00:48:30.800
We all got stuff we gotta do.
00:48:30.880 --> 00:48:34.239
We're getting ready for the Black Romans Book Fest at the end of the month.
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Which aren't you if you got from this episode and the next one?
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We're reading books from authors who will be at the Black Romans Book Fest.
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Um, with our next one being Tell Me I'm Not Dreaming by Monique Fisher, which is also available on Kindle Unlimited.
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Um, and that'll be our next episode before we head out to Atlanta.
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Super excited about that.
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What just happened?
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What my Kindle like glitched.
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Uh oh.
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Well, I really like this book.
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Um, if you're into romanticy, romance and fantasy and fee and magic, then this might be up your alley because I'm really enjoying it so far.
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Um, and we will see y'all next time.
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Yes.
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Thank you so much for listening.
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Yes.
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Um, this is probably our short session.
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Oh wait, follow our follow our thing.
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Yes, where can we find this?
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Forget.
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Well, you can find us at for oh my god, are you doing this?
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You could we we can have so many name changes.
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We might as well just be Prince.
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Literally.
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Or just formally known as Prince.
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The symbol like, oh my god.
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You can find us at Pop on the Rocks on all social media platforms.
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We have a thread now too.
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Right?
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Yes.
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We do have a thread.
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So don't boost that thread because it's it's kind of dead right now.
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We we get us some pop follow us.
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So follow us.
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I'm trying to be a bear.
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Like I get like sometimes I'll see I'll see things, but then I think I just forget I have it, and then it's I have too many.
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TikTok is the one that I'm on mostly because it's just that that just has me in a dopamine hit.
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Even though I do MS Mello training.
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I've been kind of stuck on threads lately.
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Threads is like it feels like Twitter times.
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Yeah.
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To me.
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And I've been up there a lot, but I um I need to get I need to do a better job of refining my my like you know my stuff for the for the podcast threads to book threads.
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Because there is a book threads, and I keep forgetting to tag them.
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Yeah, there's a black book threads, there's all of this, and I just keep forgetting to do it like that.
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So I'm working on it, but yeah, y'all follow.
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Yeah, so we'll see you in our next episode.
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We're gonna, like I said before, we're gonna be reading Tell Me I'm Dreaming by Monique Fisher.
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She's also gonna be attending the Black Roman's Book Festival in Atlanta, and we will see you guys next time.
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Bye.